Synodic month length 29.76 days

Length of current 321 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 9 minutes. It is 2 hours longer than next lunation 322 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 25 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 38 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 29 December 2025 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠207°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠207°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠239°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon before perigee

12 days after point of apogee on 17 December 2025 at 06:09 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 3 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 1 January 2026 at 21:43 in ♊ Gemini.

Distance to Moon 365 863 km

Moon after ascending node

3 days after its ascending node on 25 December 2025 at 22:03 in ♓ Pisces, the Moon is following the northern part of its orbit for the next 8 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from North to South in descending node on 7 January 2026 at 11:22 in ♍ Virgo.

Draconic month

Moon before northern standstill

9 days after previous South standstill on 19 December 2025 at 23:18 in ♐ Sagittarius, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-28.233°. Next 3 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠28.265° in the next northern standstill on 2 January 2026 at 08:20 in ♊ Gemini.